All-time top 10 IPOs for Internet companies

Facebook said Wednesday that it hopes to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering of stock. It would be the largest IPO ever for an Internet company. Here are the top 10 so far, according to Renaissance Capital, an IPO investment adviser:

barnesandnoble.com (now part of Barnes & Noble Inc.), IPO on May 24, 1999, $450 million raised.

Note: Public trading typically begins the day after the IPO. Amounts reflect what’s raised both by companies and their early investors and do not include extra shares known as overallotment, which are set aside to meet heavy demand.